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- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 1 day ago:
Can you imagine the sales bump from the positive PR if they had given 500 random strangers a million dollars instead of giving it to Elon? Absolute worst case they would have sold roughly 499 more cars.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 1 day ago:
Time to get Elon a trillion dollar bonus!
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 2 days ago:
This wasn’t on my phone. I don’t have TikTok installed on either my personal or work cell phone. It was on my wife’s phone, which always has auto-updates turned off. She hates updates and never lets them happen. She woke up one morning and TikTok was updated with no way to turn that off. Two of her friends also complained that their apps auto-updated overnight.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 3 days ago:
www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
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Side note: tomsguide is now horrifically hard to read.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 3 days ago:
Apple forced an update on iphones that auto-updated TikTok, which now has mandatory reporting of your geolocation (including SIM card and GPS info). This geolocation sharing can’t be turned off in Settings like all other apps. It is greyed out for TikTok.
You think this is all coincidental?
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 weeks ago:
I used to pine for this. I loved my physical keyboard on the Treo and Palm Pre. I didn’t keep it long, but I even rocked a Moto Photon Q for a bit.
Then I found swipe typing and will never go back. It is SO much faster
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The fingerprint reader works well. I don’t like using keypads much, but they do work well.
The smart doorbell hasn’t done much yet (and hopefully won’t ever be needed to do anything), but it is nice to be able to set my doorbell ring to be a fart sound. It is both funny and doesn’t make my dog bark at the doorbell.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, remote HVAC is great. I also like the smart door lock that auto-unlocks as I walk up to it so I don’t need to deal with keys… though that doesn’t always great and I end up having to use the fingerprint reader to unlock it. It is still nice to be able to unlock the door remotely to let my neighbor bring in our packages while we’re gone or to feed the dog if I’m working late.
- Comment on NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have "dummy data" 3 weeks ago:
You are surprised that a for-profit company that bills people on a RECURRING basis for a paid service keeps card numbers and billing addresses/names? How would recurring bills be paid if the info isn’t stored?
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
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Some use up the water through evaporation, so they constantly draw water. Some “consume” the water, meaning they have a closed system of cooling water, but that uses a lot more electricity than evaporative cooling, which also uses water to generate.
- Comment on 'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity 1 month ago:
I absolutely loved BG3, and I I haven’t liked an RPG since Dragon’s Quest 2 back in 1988. I plan on picking up DOS2 in 2 weeks, so if you remind me I can let you know how the two games compare. BG3 was a revelation to me, opening my eyes to a completely new way of enjoying games. The writing was good, the game-play good, the graphics good. BUT!! If I play DOS2 and also like that, then I could give you that feedback.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
I predict that this thing that is really great right now will become bad, so instead of enjoying it while it is good I’m just going to assume it will definitely go bad at some unknown time in the future and boycott it before it gets there so I can tell everyone I was right in the past.
Sounds logical.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
Power source is only one impact. Water for cooling is even bigger. There are data centers pumping out huge amounts of heat in places like AZ, TX, CA where water is scarce and temps are high.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
Sure. My company has a database of all technical papers written by employees in the last 30-ish years. Nearly all of these contain proprietary information from other companies (we deal with tons of other companies and have access to their data), so we can’t build a public LLM nor use a public LLM. So we created an internal-only LLM that is only trained on our data.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 month ago:
I’m normally not one to kink shame, but I’m shaming you right now.
- Comment on Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy” 1 month ago:
You can, and I find it fun. Some other reviewers don’t like it, and it can be clunky, but it is still fun for me to levitate someone and then slam them into a wall.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
It’s not bootlicking, you weirdo. It’s recognizing when one thing is right and one thing is wrong. Just because a company does something doesn’t make it automatically wrong.
I know it might be a crazy concept that is hard to grasp, but the world isn’t totally black and white. It’s almost like bad people can do good things sometimes. And good people can do bad things sometimes. Your way of thinking is exactly the way Republicans justify all the evil shit they do. They are religious, which makes them good people, and therefore everything they do is good. In your case, you think a corporation is bad and therefore everything they do is bad.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
The person who owns a trademark or copyright has a right to use that trademark and the onus to defend that trademark from other people using it. We used to allow anyone to call themselves anything they way, and it turned out badly.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
Theft is when something you own is taken away. The squatter never owned the domain, only registered to use it. In this case, ICANN owns the domain and allows a registrar to handle who can use that domain. ICANN sets strict rules on how domains can be used, and the squatter broke those rules.
Maybe the judge is a little smarter on actual laws than you are.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
This isn’t about an intangible thing being property. This is about the way domains are controlled. Nobody owns a domain, they register the right to use a domain. All domains are controlled and “owned” by ICANN, which allows registrars to handle who can use domains.
They are not anyone’s property.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
The point isn’t that intangible objects can’t be property. The point is that domains are not legally owned by people or corporations. You can pay for the right to use one, but you don’t own it.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 month ago:
What sucks is that a lot of commercial companies in L.A. use the .la domain, which is blocked by my company’s proxy.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can’t be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won’t play the game.
On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps “crouch/sneak” to pushing down on the movement stick. I’m furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I’m moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I’m pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
Ghosts of Yotei lets you pause during cut scenes. It doesn’t let you skip most cut scenes, though.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 months ago:
How many cars driven by humans run over cats each day? Do these outraged people think robotaxis are somehow worse than human drivers? If the humans in the car didn’t see the cat, then it doesn’t matter if it was a robot or a human driving at the time.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
Getting rid of the heat is going to be an issue for that… along with the massive pollution from the many launches required to get this in orbit.
- Comment on Making MLS more decentralized 2 months ago:
It still is 100% centralized.
All “teams” or clubs are just franchise licenses. All players are actually employees of the league, not of the clubs themselves. The league can also dictate which clubs are allowed to sign which players. It’s kind of wild.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 3 months ago:
cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-5-shatters-sales-…
While it might not feel like anyone cares about consoles, they are still selling a lot of them.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 3 months ago:
Your points are exactly why it is surprising. Most executives don’t think like me and you. If you give them a million dollars, they say they need 10 million. If you give them a billion dollars, they say they need 10 billion. There is no end to their greed. Look at how Google and Amazon are still trying to strong-arm their industries to get even more billions of dollars. Musk is out there demanding a trillion dollars.
CEOs and execs at large multinational corps like Intel don’t usually coast. They might make strategic blunders, but they usually push to make as much money as they can. If they fail, they fall back on their golden parachutes. If they win, they get shitloads more money.